Folding settee or seat



(No Model.)

J. PEARD. FOLDING SETTEE OR SEAT.

Patented July 1, 1890.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN PEARD, OF BROOKLYN, NEYV YORK,

FOLDING SETTEE OR SEAT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 431,389, dated July- 1, 1890.

Application filed February 8, 1890. 7 Serial No. 339,645. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN PEARD, a citizen of the United States, residing at Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Folding Settees or Seats, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in folding settees or seats; and the invention consists in the details of construction set forth in the following specification and claims and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a perspective view of a settee. Fig. 2 is a detail front view of two legs. Fig. 3 is a side elevation of Fig. 1 on a larger scale than Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a detail front view of three legs. Fig. 5 is a detail face view of a Fig. 6 is a section along w 00, Fig. 5. Fig. 7 is a detail face view of another form of stop. Fig. 8 is a section along .58 m, Fig. 7. Fig. 9 is a section along 7 12 Fig. 5, or along y Fig. 7. Fig. 10 shows a modification.

In the drawings, the letter A indicates the seat part or the bottom of the settee. The bottom is jointed at B to long legs 0, said legs extending up above the bottom so as to form an attachment for a back. The short legs E are joined or pivoted to the long legs at D. The stops F G limit the swing of the short legs on pivots D. These stops are made of cast-iron or any other suitable material. The stops F G are secured to opposite faces of the long legs, and the stops F are placed above the pivot D and the stops G below the pivots D. The various steps F G are detached or independent from one an other, so that each stop can be adjusted and fixed in its proper leg independent of the other steps, so that each leg E will be stopped in its proper place irrespective of any unevenness in the floor or in the detail parts of the settee. The independent stops, being thus individually adjusted, are preferable to the bars which run the length of the settee, and which have been heretofore used to serve as stops. The stops have flanges H overlapping the sides of the leg 0, and said flanges enable the stop to get a firm seat when secured to the leg, and also prevent swelling or expanding of the leg between said flanges. The leg 0 is thus prevented swelling at the flanges or near the pivot D, so that the leg 0 will not jam or chafe the leg E when swinging. 'When legs E are secured on opposite sides of the leg O, a stop of the form shown in Fig. 7 is employed, and when but one leg E is secured to the leg 0 the form of stop shown in Fig. 5 is employed. The steps have lips or lugs I, which, when sunk into the leg C, Fig. 3, prevent shifting of the stops and relieve the fastening-screws of the stops from strain. A series of seats or bottoms A can be arranged according to my invention, as shown in Fig. 1.

It is obvious that one of the stopsas, for example, the stop Finstead of being attached to the long leg C, may be attached to the short leg E, as indicated in Fig. 10; or both stops F G may be secured to the opposite faces of the short legs.

WVhat I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The combination of the several pairs of crossed legs 0 and E, the pivots D, hiuging the legs together, and a pair of stops F G for every pair of legs, each stop comprising a lateral flange, and said stops secured at opposite sides of a leg of each pair thereof above and below the pivots D, and adjustable independent of each other and of the pivots, said lateral flange of each stop extending laterally from the side of one leg into the path of the leg next thereto, substantially as described.

2. The combination, with the pairs of pivoted legs and the pivoted swinging seat, of two stops attached, respectively, to the opposite sides of one leg of each pair, and each stop formed with a flange H, extending laterally from one side and resting directly upon the side surface of the leg to which the stop is attached, substantially as shown and described.

3. The combination, with the pivoted legs 0 and E and the folding seat A, of the two stops F and G, secured at opposite sides of a leg, and each formed integral with a lip I 011 its under side which penetrates the leg and at its side with a lateral flange H, which bears upon the side surface of the leg to which the stop is secured, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set WM. 0. HAUFF, E. F. KASTENHUBEE. 

